Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
Quotes to Explore
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
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Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.
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'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
